Maiden’s Blade and Secret Concerto

Synopsis

Hinata Usuki returns to Japan after studying Western swordplay abroad, only to be greeted at the airport by a woman named Nina Clione. Nina brings him to a prestigious academy where he witnesses an extraordinary sight: beautiful maidens clad in gleaming armor, clashing swords in spectacular duels called “Mai-tou: Cadenza.”

Nina, the academy’s principal, reveals that Ginglan Academy teaches “chivalry” and offers Hinata a position as a sword instructor. However, when Hinata tries on his “armor” for his first Mai-tou match, he discovers it’s actually a rather risqué bodysuit—and he’s been cross-dressed with a wig! Armed with a magically projected armor and sword materialized in the academy’s theater, Hinata faces off against the school’s strongest knight and emerges victorious.

In the ensuing chaos, Nina announces to the crowd that “she” is actually a new second-year student transferring to the Knight Cultivation program as an assistant instructor. Thus begins Hinata’s tumultuous double life as both staff and student at this all-female academy, living as the maiden “Youna.”